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  1. Renny The Spaceman
    How well must that set have sold both times before for it to be remade 5 years later? Like I get doing a Kai vehicle he sells best but I never thought this was one of the big ones, thought it sold as well as any Kai car does
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    Yeah, don't think they'd use that vocabulary, never seen it before. Could be wrong but this seems like a point to a nostalgia series.
  3. Renny The Spaceman
    I know, I was saying since a series 11 set had it it's possible they'll keep them for every legacy set. I was talking about if they're in the remakes of the Ninjacopter or the Raid Zepplin or whatever
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    It's not bad but variety is the spice of life and all, sorta been meched out for a while (nothing will ever top the Quake Mech for me because I like weird shit), glad they exist for people but it'd be nice to keep the legacy line distinct. The Ghost and Samurai mechs have a very different design style to the modern titan ones that feel more in line with Ninjago's original more fantasy roots so wouldn't mind them but I personally don't really get anything from them remaking sets they're still doing very similar variations on like the Titan mech. Oh really, that's interesting. Only saw that in passing and thought it was just a ZX Nya
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    Do you think they keep the ZX suits for everything like they've done this wave with the Lloyd Mech? Wonder if they're used as much as the other Legacy suits will they grow as hated. This is great for the line though, I really like how the legacy line has, bar the Lloyd mech, been more focused on the earlier more fantasy Ninjago rather than the more sci-fi hero-y stuff most of the theme has been. Raid Zeppelin and the ghost mech would be great, would love Rocky and the 2 original dragons they never did. Or a new Fire Temple
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    Rogue One figures are like the most common star wars stuff I see clogging up store shelves round here, almost a decade on and I can freely get black series Jyn and Cassian megablocking anywhere this stuff is stocked. Disney massively over produces this stuff or did, these two upcoming films are really interesting to me because neither seem like great "come back to star wars, we're still relevant I swear" films. Wonder if they're gonna be more sensible with marketing them because of that. Maybe one less K next time pal Was thinking of this, the pitches for the upcoming films are weak, Starfighter atleast is a standalone story with one of Hollywood's big IT guys but this one's pitch seems to be just another samey adventure with very overexposed characters that you need to pay to see this time. I think you're right merch wise it offers nothing new and can't really coast of hype in the same way as TFA did (only Disney film who's merch doesn't seem to fill landfills) I feel like they really shot themselves in the foot making Kenobi a show, that seems like, from a cold marketing perspective what would have been the best recapture the zeitgeist film for them in terms but it was fast tracked when they were all about Disney plus
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    I guess it's possible they do a Wayne Manor or something given the game is coming out
  8. Renny The Spaceman
    My Christmas wish is they make loads of Clone sets that are ridiculously overpriced in the new year
  9. Renny The Spaceman
    I feel like the LEGO and book both being made by different companies for the DK books probably means they're budgeted separately, right? Yeah, they could do something better with just new prints they can totally I mean do we even know if the team that designs the figures for the books are in contact with the broader heads of themes? Come to think of it I don't think DK book figures have every really tied in with anything specific from the set design team. I failed, read it as the Fresh Prince intro to begin with Anyways is LEGO gonna acknowledge the real anniversary next year? 15 years of the Padawan Menace?
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    We can't know for sure but I figured the way the advent calendar did that was they took the budget from having other figures as there's only one traditional minifigure and we know they take up more of a set's budget. But with a book there's nowhere to syphon budget from, book minifigures probably use all the budget they can already because they're a throw in for a non-Lego product. If book minifigures have never had the budget for new parts I don't really know what could be changed to remedy that Maybe Shmi could have worked there Plausible tbf, I don't know how much is known about the development for the figures for non-Lego media but I could totally buy it falls under another department's purview. Like they work for the show, but like a lot of Andor they're not really toyetic
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    Boss Nass to be fair can't come in a Visiual Dictonary as books don't have new parts ever and I don't think you can do Boss Nass without a new head. It is interesting, Back in the 2015-2019 period it was commonly accepted of the Lucas saga AotC was the one left out the most and now TPM is commonly considered for that. Is Boss Nass ever on screen with a clone? Maybe that could help his chances It is a funny thing to want as a toy, pretty much all the drawbacks of Imperial and Rebel battlepacks to LEGO in one, a bunch of boring guys showing they're faces in intentionally stylistically boring suits + being the faction of samey bad guys with no personality. From a marketing stand point the exact opposite of the reasons the Clone ones are so frequently mined True, yeah. That is the big issue. They used to be better at balancing it but also it was way easier when it was just 6 films and, eventually, one cartoon.
  12. Renny The Spaceman
    Yes, very true True, Pirates is the oddball here, like the Jack Stone one not withstanding every pirates theme has been pretty stylistically similar, whenever it pops up it fits in more or less with all the rest. Space, Castle, Town have so much variation and subthemes and pirates is pretty much just pirates when and whenever it pops up. I mean I agree that modern themes are sorted?more specifically by their names instead of broader titles, that's why I think City is a distinct one ;) Classic Castle and Space's Subthemes are more akin to City's Arctic or Town's Space Port and such but modern ones like Kingdoms I feel aren't right to be classed as "Subthemes" in the same way as Black Falcons and Blacktron are. Kingdom's wasn't a subtheme or a continuation of "Castle" in the same way it was a separate entity under a distinct different name that filled the same genre but took the place of the previous theme. Kingdoms is way more similar to Fantasy-era Castle or 2013 Castle than the last waves of Town to the first waves of City but even though all three of those are Castle themes if we talked about Kingdom's anniversary we'd ignore the theme that came before even though it's dealing with similar subject matter Ofc people will draw lines where to count individual themes from the System era but suffice to say it's not just brickset driving my mindset here
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    Ehhhhh, speak for yourself there, it's not a Classic Space to Futuron thing where the sets are nigh identical in by the end. I consider them different because this is the last town airport and the first City one, there are WAY less years between these two than the gap between the CIty one and our most recent, but like the City one is still recognisable enough as City it wouldn't look too out of place next to the new one while the same can't be said for Town, I could say the same for fire stations or ambulances and so on. I don't think this because of Brickset, it's simply much easier to talk about these themes by seperating them because they're so distinct, anything I wanna say about CIty of substance (So not just it has police and houses) doesn't apply for Town and vice versa. If we bundle them together it makes conversation more difficult. Besides literally both of the other big three classic minifig themes in Space and Castle get to be segmented based on title, no-one here would just say Kingdoms and Castle are the same and a Kingdoms anniversry , if touched, would have to be '78. If you class them differently you're free to but I'm not doing this out of dedication to a website, it's what makes the most sense to me. (also the Town one was rereleased under City and the only thing ever said about that was how weird and out of place it felt)
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    They're different themes, with completely different design languages, artsyles, marketing and a whole other City theme between theme. They're both subtheme of the same thing but they different themes. Designers, official books and such always distinguish them. They're no more the same theme than Life on Mars and Mars Mission or Bionicle and Hero Factory
  15. Renny The Spaceman
    That's town, they're different Ah, right, so neither have big anniversary's next year
  16. Renny The Spaceman
    City's anniversary is this year, it started in 2005, Friends was 2011 or 2012 so it might be it's anniversary next year
  17. Renny The Spaceman
    Knew I was missing one, 4 years and 10 months, absolutely up there as the current second place assuming I've not forgotten another one WHAT True, but it's an odd ball, I don't feel confident ruling it out yet. It'd make sense for the 2027 clone pack to be like one people know as Disney's probably gonna do a big marketing push for the saga's 50th given we know they're doing a big cinema rerelease and Lucasfilm did a big merch push back for the 30th and this is the next notable anniversary. Based off the films the most notable probably are just the P1 shineys, 501st and 212th Yeah, I know why people love Cody, I'm one of them, just very validating to see how much of a draw he was given I remember debating with people on these forums about him being a needed fig and the argument being no-one really cared. But the set itself feels like one of few SW ones that's a well priced (it's 120 here which is ridiculous for a over a thousand piece SW set), sizeable build with no issues, plenty of play features, looks good on display so it makes sense it's one to pull non-AFoLs
  18. Renny The Spaceman
    Maybe, but (gonna go on the same tangent again because I find retirement dates interesting) it's already one of the longest running LEGO Star Wars play sets, if it retires around this time next year it'll only have been beat by the Rise of Skywalker falcon and (assuming they don't also retire then) the Mando starfighter and Obi-Wan Starfighter. Four years is wicked long for a normal playset in the 21st century so it's a weird anomaly I'd like a 212th pack, I'd buy one or two when it's inevitably on sale like all battle packs are here, the only one I would for but the AT-TE's a weird oddity so I don't know what to expect for that one, might have a whole extra year or two in it for all we know. Because the other three longevity sets listed all make sense as modern, quintessential versions of main characters' ships but this one is a set of a vehicle that's memorable, I guess, but like in the way the AT-ST is where no non-fan could describe it from memory or know it by the name but they'd probably recognise it if shown and it has only one named character who falls under the exact same principle.
  19. Renny The Spaceman
    Yeah you're right, that is shit facial hair, character return means nothing now, honestly just put him in the fridge this time
  20. Renny The Spaceman
    I'd have to imagine he's does by now This ain't happening though
  21. Renny The Spaceman
    Don't the clone wars boxes still have the pre-legotuber 9/11 helmets without the holes? And the year that introduced the holes had a bad batch set and the purple clone set with the old helmets. I think it's plausible there's a new baby Yoda figure
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    Obviously I don't have any concrete data because we don't really have any way of quantifying that but like every piece of themeless Lego merch for kids whether that's stationary, plushies, Pencil cases is always littered with the costume figures, the hotdog guy is the closest thing to a mascot for LEGO and at least 2 of them are in every LEGO merch line, game, movie and so on. They're all over the LEGOLAND parks as mascot costumes and statues. Also it's the only themed CMF gimmick to be done more than once. LEGO has made stupid decisions before but if they weren't popular with kids there's no way they'd be pushed this hard. And, completely anecdotally, I remember back in the day the costume figures all were big deals when they were first introduced, people went mad over the Gorilla, Bunny, Hot Dog and such. I'm sure there are exceptions and kids who don't like them but even if I as an AFoL don't care for them it's very obvious they have a big market
  23. Renny The Spaceman
    Yeah, that's very possible I think they're the most popular with the punters, so to each their own. I don't get much from them but people who aren't AFoLs but buy the occasional CMF and kids love them (not to say no AFoLs like them ofc, just the people who don't like them are almost always AFoLs)
  24. Renny The Spaceman
    That is a good point I didn't think of but whether or not there are animals I think three costumes is still a lock
  25. Renny The Spaceman
    Yeah, made the most sense, hopefully the lineup is strong. It's a shame, when Space has a themed CMF the generic one before and after have no Space figures but given the wave before still having the mandatory 3 costumes I imagine series 29 will have 3 costumes too
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